Explosive Space Shuffleboard, A Cautionary Tale of Militant Bueracracy
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In 10 seconds the missiles will reach their target! You must stop them with the only weapon in your arsenal... MILITANT BUREAUCRACY! Throw the explosive Middle Management, and in 10 seconds they will detonate!
Missing Functionality:
- Game Logic (No win condition, ways to restart, etc)
- Countermeasure unfinished (placeholder model, no physics interaction)
- Missile mechanics (advanced missile paths and patterns missing)
Post Mortem:
We had a few problems with one of our programmers, so we unintentionally bit of more than we were prepared to chew when it came to game mechanics.
All told, we weren't terribly off from our planned goals. The game logic missing plus the lack of explosions on the counter measures is a gameplay death sentence, but I'm not completely crushed. We learned where the worst of our communications come from, but most importantly learned how REALLY fast we can put out work if we absolutely must. (Also learned that it's critical for the artist to get their own assets in engine, as that was a major productivity expense to halt production to fix supposedly ready assets :-P ).
Our sound guy did a PHENOMENAL job on the music. We can't take any direct credit for the explosions though, as those were from a third party source (always found it odd that explosions were not part of the unity engine natively).
Change Log:
version 0.0.0.6
- Fixed counter-measure behavior for new art asset. Now orients itself to drag vector. Rotation temporarily disabled.
version 0.0.0.5
- Added counter measure throwing mechanic.
- Added some simple lighting.
- Added fancier base to protect.
- Corrected missile facing.
version 0.0.0.4
- Added art assets for missiles and base surface.
- Added theme music
version 0.0.0.3
- Added explosions for missiles
Missing Functionality:
- Game Logic (No win condition, ways to restart, etc)
- Countermeasure unfinished (placeholder model, no physics interaction)
- Missile mechanics (advanced missile paths and patterns missing)
Post Mortem:
We had a few problems with one of our programmers, so we unintentionally bit of more than we were prepared to chew when it came to game mechanics.
All told, we weren't terribly off from our planned goals. The game logic missing plus the lack of explosions on the counter measures is a gameplay death sentence, but I'm not completely crushed. We learned where the worst of our communications come from, but most importantly learned how REALLY fast we can put out work if we absolutely must. (Also learned that it's critical for the artist to get their own assets in engine, as that was a major productivity expense to halt production to fix supposedly ready assets :-P ).
Our sound guy did a PHENOMENAL job on the music. We can't take any direct credit for the explosions though, as those were from a third party source (always found it odd that explosions were not part of the unity engine natively).
Change Log:
version 0.0.0.6
- Fixed counter-measure behavior for new art asset. Now orients itself to drag vector. Rotation temporarily disabled.
version 0.0.0.5
- Added counter measure throwing mechanic.
- Added some simple lighting.
- Added fancier base to protect.
- Corrected missile facing.
version 0.0.0.4
- Added art assets for missiles and base surface.
- Added theme music
version 0.0.0.3
- Added explosions for missiles